Dragon John can only be returned to his true form as a prince if someone freely gives him a flower.

When Johnny’s hand injury prevents him working as a silversmith’s apprentice, he joins the American rebels as a messenger. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When the big snow paralyzes the town, Katy goes to work and plows it out.

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The big brown bear just cannot keep away from the honey tree, even though he knows what will happen if he tries to steal some honey. This Big Golden Book was also shortened and published as a Little Golden Book.

The four Melendys meet Mark, and then there are five.

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Birdie Boyer and her family move to Florida to raise strawberries.

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The story of Tim and Cissy, growing up on Nantucket and the rainbows they shared.

“The finest fire is the fire that’s out,” sing the five little firemen. Later editions have fewer pages.

The four Guthrie children are cast away on an invisible island.

When Steve Duncan is asked to go on an archeological search on a remote Caribbean island, he never imagines the stallion he will find there. But the giant horse is unapproachable, showing nothing but fear and fury toward people. When the stallion get... View More

Jenny the bus may be old, but she has a golden button on her dashboard that will take you anywhere. This is an abridged edition of Jenny, the Bus that Nobody Loved.... View More

When an alley cat he befriends tells Elmer Elevator about the captive baby dragon on Wild Island, he determines to go to the island and set him free. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The whole family -- three generations and the dog -- join together to make a rundown old house into a home.

The adventures of Cowboy Small.

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A treasure is rumored to be buried on Invisible Island, and the eight explorers are determined to find it.

Emily lives with her grandfather and dreams of going to college. A novel worthy of the creator of Betsy and Tacy. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Orphaned when his trapeze artist parents are killed, Rob wants nothing more than to be a flyer. But his uncle Ted wants him to have a normal life and takes him to stay with Mrs. Fatima, who runs a boarding house for circus performers. Read online at ... View More

Jo March has married Professor Bhaer and started a boarding school for boys on advanced lines. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The little trapper gets trapped.

We see the Mississippi River through the eyes of a snapping turtle.

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A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.

Two orphaned sisters are sent by their uncle to a boarding school run on the lines made infamous by Dotheboys Hall and run away as soon as they can.

Julie’s father says no pets, but Julie goes ahead and buys a two-toed sloth named Sampson and soon discovers she can’t keep him a secret. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

On a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia learns she is to visit her Aunt Sophia Maria, so she sets off next day with an umbrella, a gardenia bush, a carpetbag full of pawpaw jelly and her cat Strawberry.

Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The widow of a retired pirate has move to the country but is still providing cures for children with bad habits.

David and Chuck are approached by their neighbor Mr. Bass to build a space ship.

This time travel adventure takes Chris Mason and Mr. Wicker back to colonial days.

When Harold decides to go for a walk in the moonlight, there isn’t any moon, nor anywhere to walk, but his purple crayon soon fixes that. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Anatole is a most honorable mouse. When he realizes that humans are upset by mice sampling their leftover food, he is shocked! He must provide for his beloved family—but he is determined to find a way to earn his supper.

When Nate’s chicken lays an enormous egg, every one is anxious to see what will hatch. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

On another lavender blue day Anna Lavinia explores dew pond hill and travels through the dew pond to meet her cousin Toby.

Portia and her cousin Julian discover an abandoned summer colony on the shores of a gone-away lake. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris Wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Junior Literary Guild edition has a library binding. A prepublication binding in yellow cl... View More

A woman with a magic way of curing children’s bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers. Read online at archive.o... View More

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is the widow of a pirate who lives in a house built upside down. When worried mothers call her about Jane or Darci’s behavior problems, she always has a solution. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle sometimes comes up with surprising cures for childrens’ problems. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Harold goes looking for a Christmas tree, but first he has to lend Santa Claus a helping crayon. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

David and Chuck are off in their spaceship to rescue the world from the Brumblitron.

When Eddie’s cousin Priscilla joins him at science camp he is certain she will ruin it for him.

While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A light on the mountain brings conflict to the Land Between the Mountains, and the only Minnipins who stand in the breach are a band of outcasts. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.

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Sam Gribley takes to the woods and lives by himself for a year.

When Jenny starts hearing people’s thoughts, her brothers figure out how to cash in.

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Laura, Lydia, James and Kip put the old wishing well on its mettle, and it delivers. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Following the clues scratched on a window in their attic Eleanor and Eddy embark on a series of adventures across time and space. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

An omnibus of boys boarding school stories containing The Prodigious Hickey, The Varmint, and The Tennessee Shad.... View More

The adventures of a city bred cat and mouse when they go to the country in Connecticut to visit their friend, Chester Cricket. A sequel to “The Cricket in Times Square.” Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When the Finches move into Number Seven Pride Street, they discover something in the cellar. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Margaret wants to sail for a day in a boat named for her with someone nice for company.

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A full-scale survey of children’s picturebooks of this century, examining and evaluating numerous notable books and the work of notable illustrators, from E. Boyd Smith and Wanda Gag to Maurice Sendak and Margot Zemach. After more than 30 years... View More

Jo Jo, Jip and Nicolette traveling about in their caravan presenting plays and granting wishes, are shivering in the winter’s cold until a little old fairy godmother grants their wish.

Pioneers head west to the Oregon territory by wagon train.

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A classic story of a half-dog half-wolf who is brutalized by a bad master during the Klondike gold rush, but finally finds a man he can love.

A young orphan girl spends the summer with two families, hoping that one will adopt her.

Frank O. King’s newspaper strip Gasoline Alley, starring Walt Wallet, first appeared November 24, 1918. In the strip for February 14, 1921, a baby, whom Walt names Skeezix is left on Walt’s doorstep. This is the first volume in the collec... View More

This is the first volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips from 1924-1927 as well as a few atypical Sunday strips that advance the plot.